Staid, old New England has tossed aside its patrician cool, reacting with collegiate fervor to the hyped-up Patriots, who last Sunday afternoon crushed the Baltimore Colts for their fourth straight NFL victory

A friend and occasional critic looks over the layout Nicklaus designed near his hometown, Columbus, and concludes it has everything but a name. The determination that made Jack a champion underlies his emergence in a related profession

Before he became the premier postseason performer of his generation, the Patriots icon was a middling college quarterback who invited skepticism, even scorn, from fans and his coaches. That was all—and that was everything